Strange Dreams Indeed: Evangelist Tried to Get Me to Drink the Orangina

A few nights back, I dreamed that the Rev. Johnny Robertson of Martinsville, Va., who looks fairly similar to the Rev. Robert Tilton, (pictured here) one of America's most infamous tv evangelist (Robertson_ no relation to Pat Robertson_ is also a tv evangelist, but on a smaller scale), tried to get give me a free three-foot bottle of Orangina if I would accept Jesus Christ as my lord and savior.

The scene of the dream was a Food Lion grocery store in Eden, NC, just over the border from Martinsville, where I'm virtually certain that they don't sell Orangina!

http://www.orangina.com

Today is My 40th Birthday, and I am NOT Turning Into a Republican

While I was listening to NPR's "Talk of the Nation" yesterday during my one-hour commute to work, I was thinking to myself: "Hmmm...tomorrow is my 40th birthday. They say you get more conservative as you get older is there any chance....," and then I heard the show's guest former presidential candidate Mitt Romney (R-Mass.) speak and I realized: "Nope....!"

Of course, some Republicans like Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) are moderate, sane, rational people,who are not right-wing extremists, and if I lived in Portland (Maine) I might be inclinded to vote for her.

But here in the South, they are pretty much the characters you see in an old Hopalong Cassidy western or (even worse) folks who would actually give $$$$ to the likes of the Rev. Robert Tilton (pictured here)..........hmm, someone might actually shoot me for saying that:)